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3, 1895; Holmes in 13th Rep. B. A. E., 

 1896; Matthews (1) in 3d Eep. B. A. E., 

 1884, (2) Navaho Legends, 1897; Pepper 

 in Everybody's Mag., Jan. 1902; Stephen 

 in Am. Anthrop., vi, no. 4, 1893; Voth 

 in Am. Anthrop., ii, no. 2, 1900. See 

 Adornment, Cloihmg, Di^es and Pigments, 

 Receptacles, Wearing, (o. t. m. w. h. ) 



Blewmouths. Mentioned in a Georgia 

 tract of 1740 (Force Tracts, i, 3, 1836) ap- 

 parently as a tribe av. of the Choctaw. 

 "According to the French Indians [Choc- 

 taw] there is a large city where a blue- 

 lipped people live, of whom they have 

 often heard it said that if any one tries to 

 kill them he becomes insane" (Brinton, 

 Nat. Leg. Chahta-Muskokee Tribes, 10, 

 1870). Nothing further is known of them. 



Bloody Knife. A famous Arikara war- 

 rior and chief, who was long in the Gov- 

 ernment service. His father was a Hunk- 

 papa Sioux and his mother an Arikara. 

 He was born on the Hunkpapa res., 

 N. Dak., but as he approached manhood 

 his mother determined to return to her 

 people and he accompanied her. Prior 

 to the building of the Northern Pacific 

 R. R. the mail for Ft Stevenson, N. Dak., 

 and other Missouri r. points, was carried 

 overland from Ft Totten. The high 

 country e. of the Missouri was at that time 

 a hunting ground for hostile Sioux who 

 had been driven w. from Minnesota 

 after the massacre of 1862, and so often 

 were the mail carriers on this route killed 

 that it became diflicult to find anyone to 

 carry the mails. Bloody Knife under- 

 took the task, and traversing the country 

 with Indian caution almost always got 

 the mail through on time. Soon after 

 the establishment of Ft Abraham Lin- 

 coln, N. Dak., a number of Arikara scouts 

 were engaged for service at the post, and 

 of these Bloody Knife was the chief. He 

 was with Gen. Stanley on the Yellow- 

 stone expedition of 1873 and took part 

 in the fighting of that trip; he also accom- 

 panied Custer to the Black-hills in 1874, 

 and was one of the scouts with Custer and 

 Terry's expedition in 1876. On the day 

 of the Custer fight he was with the other 

 scouts with Reno's command, took part 

 in the effort made by them to check the 

 Indians who were charging Reno's force 

 while crossing Reno cr., and was killed 

 there, fighting bravely. (g. b. g.) 



Blount Indians. A Seminole band, num- 

 bering 43, under John Blunt, or Blount, 

 for whom a reserve, 2 by 4 m. on Apa- 

 lachicola r., Fla., was established in 1823 

 by the Moultrie Creek treatv (U. S. Ind. 

 Treaties, 307, 1837). They went to lower 

 Chattahoochee r., Ala., before the Semi- 

 nole war of 1835-42, and after it removed 

 with the Alibanm to Polk co. , Tex. , where 

 28 of them survived in 1870 (Ind. Aff. 

 Rep., 327, 1870). 



Blunt Indians. — Ibid. 



Blowgun. A dart-shooting weapon, con- 

 sisting of a long tube of cane or wood from 

 which little darts are discharged Ijy blow- 

 ing with the mouth. The darts are slen- 

 der splints or weed stems, pointed at one 

 end and wrapped at the butt with cotton, 

 thistle down, or other soft material. This 

 implement was common in the more 

 southerly parts of the United States, the 

 habitat of the fishing cane of which it 

 was made. The Cherokee, Iroquois, and 

 Muskhogean tribes made use of it. In 



PORTION OF CANE BLOWGUN AND THISTLE-DOWN DART; 

 CHEROKEE 



the National Museum is an example from 

 Louisiana made of four cane stems lashed 

 together side by side. The Cherokee, 

 who call the little darts by the same 

 name as that of the thistle, gather the 

 heads of thistles at the proper season and 

 pack them together in the form of a wheel 

 which they hang in their houses to be 

 made into darts (Mooney). The north- 

 ern Iroquois substituted elder stalks for 

 cane (Hewitt). The Hopi, in certain 

 ceremonies, blow feathers to the cardinal 

 points through tubes of cane (Fewkes). 



(o. T. M. ) 



Bluejacket ( Weyapiersemvah) . An in- 

 fluential Shawnee chief, born probably 

 about the middle of the 18th century. 

 He was noted chiefly as the principal 

 leader of the Indian forces in the battle 

 with Gen. Wayne of Aug. 20, 1794, at 

 Presque Isle, Ohio. In the fight with Gen. 

 Harmer in 1790 he was associated in 

 command with Little Turtle, but in the 

 battle with Wayne Bluejacket assumed 

 chief control, as Little Turtle was opposed 

 to further warring and urged the accept- 

 ance of the offers of peace, but was over- 

 ruled by Bluejacket. After the defeat of 

 the Indians, Bluejacket was present at 

 the conference at Greenville, Ohio, and 

 signed the treaty of 1795 made with Wayne 

 at that place. He also signed the treaty 

 of Ft Industry, Ohio, July 4, 1805. It is 

 probable that he died soon after this 

 date, as there is no further notice of him. 

 Later descendants of the same name con- 

 tinue to be influential leaders in the tribe 

 in the W. (c. t.) 



Boalkea. A Pomo village, speaking the 

 northern dialect, in Scott valley, w. of up- 

 per Clear lake, Cal. Gibbs, in 1851, gave 

 them, under the name Moalkai, as one 

 of the Clear, lake groups, w. of the lake, 

 with a population of 45. (a. l. k.) 



M6al-kai.— Gibbs (1851) in Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, ni, 109, 1853. 



